Raising A Lion in The Jungle: A Podcast About Co-Parenting and Dreams

Raising A Lion in The Jungle: A Podcast About Co-Parenting and Dreams

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Ben and Amy are co-parents of a twelve year-old boy. They are divorced a decade. They talk about what they have learned and are learning about raising a child together and apart.

Ben and Amy


    • Oct 7, 2020 LATEST EPISODE
    • monthly NEW EPISODES
    • 57m AVG DURATION
    • 18 EPISODES


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    The one where we talk about getting our kid a cell phone and how that and navigating the world of technology and social media is a great and constant opportunity to have conversations together. And the power of feeling what is happening in our bodies as w

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 7, 2020 52:46


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    The one where we talk about our commitment to supporting Wake to walk through the fire of adolescence and find himself in that heat. Also, integrity and patience and the valuable example of RBG's modeling of that.

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 28, 2020 57:38


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    The one where we talk about the hike up Spruce Mountain and grit

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 14, 2020 57:51


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    The one where we share our inspirations from listening to Lenore Skenazy, talk about letting go and feeling the fear of doing so

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 6, 2020 59:31


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    The one where we talk about the coming fall, riding the waves of feeling, and working on ourselves so we don’t pass our shit onto our kids.....

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 31, 2020 62:18


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    The one where we talk about the fine line of reaching out versus trusting ourselves among a bunch of other stuff.

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 22, 2020 53:30


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    The one where we have our first guest, the inimitable Dan Sharp.

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 2, 2020 63:22


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    The one in which we try and fail to have our first guest, talk about the lost debit card, and take a deeper dive into our experience of each other's parenting.

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 12, 2020 49:43


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    Where we talk about asking for help (from each other and in general) and the age-old conundrum of how much and how to push

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 5, 2020 58:55


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    The one where we talk about intrinsic self-worth and how feeling it or not feeling it affects how we move through the world, as parents, and just within ourselves; how the way we are taught to define success is off the mark. We talk about our dads a bit.

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 21, 2020 33:42


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    The one in which we talk about the discomfort of feeling feelings and the healthy grief of watching a child keep growing

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 14, 2020 60:25


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    The one in which we talk more deeply about attunement, feeling more deeply into what our experience is and what Wake’s might be.

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 7, 2020 54:32


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    The one in which we talk about parenting through conversations about racism and trauma..

    Play Episode Listen Later May 31, 2020 56:44


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    The Seventh One: Mother's Day

    Play Episode Listen Later May 10, 2020 60:09


    A Mother's Day episode, where we talk about the break we took, Ben's fathering through a major depressive episode, parenting in the days of corona, and #GrantGustin.#CoParenting#MothersDay#Depression#Corona

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    The Fifth One

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 19, 2020 59:25


    We talk about Ben's trip to New York with Wake, the on-going process (struggle) related to helping him take responsibility, and how each of us shies away from asking him to participate in stuff when we know better.

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    Where we talk about the Super Bowl halftime show, the new Taylor Swift Netflix thing, and not that much about Wake.

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 16, 2020 62:08


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    Where we talk about our separation and how we each took care of ourselves and Wake through it.

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 4, 2020 60:26


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    The First One

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 26, 2020 77:24


    We talk about rules at different houses,

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